Polycom,
Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based
unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today announced general
availability of a wave of breakthrough solutions unveiled on October 8
that are designed to accelerate widespread adoption of video
collaboration.

The solutions available for purchase today deliver the industry’s best
end-to-end solution and include: the first open standards-based SVC
support through enhancements to the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform;
Polycom® RealPresence® Collaboration Server 800s, Virtual Edition – the
industry’s first multi-protocol, integrated software MCU that runs on
industry-standard servers; new and updated video collaboration endpoints
including Polycom® RealPresence® Desktop 2.0 software (for PCs and
laptops), Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile 2.0 software, and Polycom®
RealPresence Group® 300 and 500 solutions; and Polycom® RealPresence®
Access Director™ technology. Polycom® RealPresence® Collaboration Server
800s, Virtual Edition, along with various new customized Platform
offerings and next-generation Polycom® RealPresence® video endpoints,
are part of a new mid-market portfolio.

The announcement furthers Polycom’s aggressive initiative to bring to
market next-generation UC&C solutions refined over two years of
intensive R&D. Delivered on schedule, Polycom’s new solutions offer the
highest quality audio and video experience across an array of
infrastructure components and user environments.

“In October, Polycom’s announcements of breakthrough solutions raised
the bar on enabling people to collaborate face-to-face over video,
securely and reliably, no matter where they are located or what device
or platform they want to use,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President of
Products and Services, Polycom. “Now we’re delivering on the vision we
set out just a few weeks ago by bringing to market UC&C solutions that
are simple to use, built around open standards, designed for enterprises
and mid-sized companies, and giving users the best video collaboration
experience. Furthermore, for the first time in the industry, we are
enabling mixed SVC and AVC video environments without a gateway,
allowing customers to increase scalability and dramatically reduce TCO.”

SVC Support on RealPresence Platform

Polycom is helping to make quality video collaboration accessible and
ubiquitous by incorporating support for the industry’s first
implementation of open
standards-based H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology into
the Polycom RealPresence Platform. Polycom’s native support for SVC on
the RealPresence Platform delivers 3X HD multipoint capacity for greater
scalability and dramatically lower TCO, higher quality video
performance, and long-term investment protection by providing backwards-
and forwards- compatibility and interoperability without the need for
expensive gateways or hardware. Scalability is important to customers as
they bring video collaboration to more employees and onto more devices,
such as PCs and tablets.

“Every day, more of our employees discover that communicating and
collaborating face-to-face over video helps them get more done sooner,
and improves their work-life balance by reducing business travel,” said
Dan Van Roekel, Telehealth Technology Manager at Sanford Health, the
largest medical facility in the Fargo, North Dakota and Sioux Falls,
South Dakota regions, dedicated to the work of healing. “Now we’re able
to upgrade our Polycom RealPresence infrastructure to support SVC. This
is huge, not only because it is interoperable with our current video
investments and gives us much more capacity, but because it also allows
us to deliver the best quality video experience across all our user
environments, including desktops, mobile devices, and group video
systems.”

The open standards-based SVC algorithm provides a multi-layered data
structure that allows systems to adapt to networks to enhance the
resolution, frame rate, and quality of video streams, and increase error
resiliency, all without requiring excessive bandwidth or administrative
intervention. This includes SVC enabling a video stream to be reduced in
size automatically if there is a reduction in throughput (e.g., a
connectivity bottleneck), allowing the viewer of a video meeting to keep
the connection at a slightly lower resolution instead of getting a pause
or a video freeze.

To address the unique needs of mid-sized organizations – including
support for SVC and future protocols, and the ability to accommodate
desktop and mobile environments – Polycom is delivering solutions
configured and priced for organizations starting out with video, but
still offering scalability to add users as companies grow.

Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s, Virtual Edition. Polycom
has delivered Polycom
RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s, Virtual Edition – the
industry’s first multi-protocol, integrated software MCU that runs on
an industry-standard server, connecting video systems using the open
standards-based SVC protocol with video systems using other protocols,
such as AVC, to the same meeting without expensive gateways or extra
licenses that add cost and induce risk. The open-standards based SVC
solution is backwards- and forwards- compatible, and results in a 3X
HD multipoint video capacity increase for greater scalability and
dramatically lower TCO. The solution is ideal for mid-sized
enterprises as well as larger organizations with branch offices and
represents a significant step forward in delivering virtualized video
collaboration from the datacenter for even greater flexibility and ROI.

Support 100 Devices with RealPresence Resource Manager. The
mid-market version of the Polycom
RealPresence Resource Manager system allows smaller organizations
to cost-effectively provision, monitor, and manage their video
collaboration network.

Support 50 Concurrent Calls with RealPresence Virtualization Manager.
Organizations now can intelligently route up to 50 concurrent voice
and video calls based on priority, bandwidth availability, and class
of service in an affordable mid-market configuration of the Polycom
RealPresence Virtualization Manager 5.1 (DMA) system.

Polycom portfolio of mid-market solutions also includes various
endpoints such as the new RealPresence Group 300 solution for huddle
rooms; RealPresence Desktop 2.0 software for PCs and laptops, and
RealPresence Mobile 2.0 software, delivering easy-to-use video
solutions at affordable prices.

Updated Polycom
RealPresence Desktop 2.0 software for PCs and laptops and Polycom
RealPresence Mobile 2.0 software for tablets and smartphones extend
video beyond conference rooms, enabling organizations to deliver video
collaboration to more users in more environments. The updated software
applications feature the new Polycom user experience, Polycom
UX™, the industry’s best user experience with more than 20 new user
innovations and features, including a completely redesigned UI. Through
the Polycom RealPresence Platform, the RealPresence Desktop and
RealPresence Mobile solutions are SVC-enabled.

Polycom RealPresence Desktop 2.0 is affordable,
enterprise-quality video collaborationsoftware
application for PCs and laptops. The system includes features such as
corporate directory search for other video users, the ability to
select a specific application for content sharing, and far-end
(remote) camera control.

Polycom RealPresence Mobile 2.0 is Polycom’s
award-winning software application that lets customers securely extend
the use of video collaboration beyond the conference room to easily
connect tablets and smartphones (iOS and Android devices) with other
standards-based video systems. Now available for more than a dozen
devices, the updated app includes the new patent-pending Polycom
SmartPairing™ technology wirelessly connects Apple iPads to the
RealPresence Group Series and enhanced HDX 3.1 series, letting users
control video meetings with their tablets and transfer a live video
call from their tablet to a big screen with the swipe of a finger (watch
a related video). For iPad users, additional features include
content sharing and far-end camera control (see video
and related press
release).

"Polycom's latest solutions really stand out. RealPresence Mobile 2.0
software is so easy to install and use, and it's integrated with Active
Directory, and everyone on staff has an Active Directory account, so
setting up a video call is no big deal," said Steve O’Brien, director of
data center operations, Jefferson County (Jeffco) Public Schools. "In
the past three days, 51 percent of the people who logged into a video
conference were using the RealPresence Mobile 2.0 app on an iPad, and 49
percent were using RealPresence Desktop 2.0 solutions. Once people see
how this makes their own lives better, more often than not, they're
downloading the RealPresence Mobile app, asking for a software license
for their PC, or wanting to use a room video system.”

Last month, Polycom made available the 300 and 500 models of the new Polycom
RealPresence Group Series, designed for smaller environments such as
“huddle” rooms, and medium-sized areas such as classrooms and conference
rooms, respectively. The new RealPresence Group Series solutions also
feature the new Polycom user experience, the Polycom UX, including the
new UI, SmartPairing technology capabilities, and the industry’s best HD
video (up to 1080p60 resolution), content sharing, and crystal-clear
audio.

Polycom RealPresence Access Director

With the availability of the new Polycom
RealPresence Access Director solution, Polycom makes it easier for
users, inside or outside the firewall, to video conference safely with
anyone in the organization, whether they are in a secure environment at
the office or an unsecure environment at home or on the go. Integrated
with the RealPresence Platform virtualization and resource management
solutions, RealPresence Access Director brings cost-effective, highly
scalable conferencing to applications such as B2B, B2C, and
intra-company collaboration.

Availability

RealPresence Collaboration Suite 800s, Virtual Edition is now available.
Polycom RealPresence Desktop software is available for PC users today
and will be available for Mac users in 2013. Polycom RealPresence Mobile
2.0 software is available today as a free download from the Apple
AppStore™ and Google
Play; support for SmartPairing will be available on the iPad® 2 and
the new iPad later this month. RealPresence Access Director is available
in configurations that scale from medium office to large enterprise
environments. RealPresence Group 300 and 500 solutions have been
available since November. The midmarket versions of the RealPresence
Resource Manager and the RealPresence Virtualization Manager systems are
now available. Contact your local Polycom sales representative or
channel partner for pricing information.

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in open standards-based unified
communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video
collaboration, trusted by more than 415,000 customers around the world.
Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform,
comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that interoperate
with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile and cloud
applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video
collaboration in any environment. Polycom and its ecosystem of over
7,000 partners provide truly unified communications solutions that
deliver the best user experience, highest multi-vendor interoperability,
and lowest TCO. Visit www.polycom.com
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NOTE: The product plans, specifications, and descriptions herein are
provided for information only and subject to change without notice, and
are provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Polycom
reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time. Products
and related specifications referenced herein are not guaranteed and will
be delivered on a when and if available basis.

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995 regarding future events, including statements regarding
product availability and Polycom's new solutions transforming the video
collaboration industry and accelerating widespread adoption of video and
universal access. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks
and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially,
including the impact of competition on our product sales and for our
customers and partners; the impact of increased competition due to
consolidation in our industry or competition from companies that are
larger or that have greater resources than we do; our ability to bring
our new products and offerings to market in a timely manner due to
engineering, manufacturing or other delays; changing market demands;
potential fluctuations in results and future growth rates; continuing
disruption to the business due to the realignment of the North America
sales organization; risks associated with general economic conditions
and external market factors; the market acceptance of our products and
changing market demands, including demands for differing technologies or
product and services offerings; our ability to successfully integrate
our acquisitions into our business; possible delays in the development,
availability and shipment of new products; increasing costs and
differing uses of capital; changes in key personnel that may cause
disruption to the business; our inability to achieve the expected
results from adjustments being made to our expense profile; the impact
of restructuring actions; and the impact of global conflicts and
changing laws that may adversely impact our business. Many of these
risks and uncertainties are discussed in the Company's Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, and in other
reports filed by Polycom with the SEC. Polycom disclaims any intent or
obligations to update these forward-looking statements.